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Thursday, 23 August 2012
Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy is used to speed, but even Britain's premier cycling champion was thrilled by a ride in an RAF Typhoon....
Thursday, 23 August 2012
The Ministry of Defence has announced plans to procure 25 extra Foxhound vehicles to add to the Army's existing fleet....
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
It has been announced that Nottingham will host the Armed Forces Day National Event next year....
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Royal Marines aboard HMS Sutherland have been practising their pirate vessel boarding techniques using 'rapid roping' from the frigate's helicopter in...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), the Ministry of Defence's property and services provider, has selected three consortia to continue to p...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
The crew of a Royal Air Force Puma helicopter have kick-started the opening of the 2012 Paralympic Games by helping to unveil the official logo in Edi...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
The public is being offered the chance to take on a true test of military fitness in Colchester....
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Personnel from the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) have been mentoring Afghan soldiers to improve their trauma care and first aid skills....
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
An RAF team has uncovered a huge stash of drugs in a truck in Afghanistan using a Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS)....
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
The last tranche of soldiers to complete their Phase 1 training at Bassingbourn Barracks have marched off the parade square and into the history books...
Monday, 20 August 2012
The latest design of the Royal Navy’s next generation of warships has been unveiled today by the MoD....
Monday, 20 August 2012
Service Chiefs have been joined by Team GB Olympians and other sporting stars to show their support for Armed Forces personnel taking part in the Para...
Monday, 20 August 2012
25 per cent of civilian and military senior personnel based at the Ministry of Defence's Head Office will be cut over the next two years to form a new...
Monday, 20 August 2012
The second series of the Bafta-winning 'Our War' follows life on the front line in Afghanistan through remarkable films shot by the soldiers themselve...
Monday, 20 August 2012
The latest design of the Royal Navy's Type 26 Global Combat Ship (T26 GCS), the next generation of warships, has been unveiled today....
Sunday, 19 August 2012
It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Guardsman Jamie Shadrake of the Reconnaissance Platoon, 1st Battalion Grenadie...
Saturday, 18 August 2012
It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must announce that a soldier from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards has died in Afghanistan....
Friday, 17 August 2012
York Minster provided the venue for a recent RAF Search and Rescue (SAR) simulated casualty evacuation exercise....
Friday, 17 August 2012
Chief of the General Staff (CGS), General Sir Peter Wall, has inspected the largest military graduation parade in Europe at the Army Foundation Colleg...
Friday, 17 August 2012
Personnel from RAF Leeming showed why they're the Pride of Britain when they helped the Daily Mirror launch its annual campaign to find unsung heroes....
Friday, 17 August 2012
Two British Army reservists, both UK law enforcement officers in civilian life, have been helping to improve policing standards in southern Afghanista...
Friday, 17 August 2012
The first Afghan Police community engagement event for youngsters and their families has attracted more than 200 children in an area once considered a...
Thursday, 16 August 2012
The Armed Forces weren't the only ones to work flat out at the Olympics, scores of MOD civilians also gave up their holidays to volunteer. MOD civil s...
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Royal Navy survey ship HMS Echo has returned to her home port of Plymouth after a marathon 19-month deployment....
Thursday, 16 August 2012
A team of Royal Navy aviators rescued an injured man from his yacht yesterday evening in very difficult conditions - a Sea State of 8 and a 40-foot (1...
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Sappers from 26 Engineer Regiment have been taking part in the first ever ocean divers course to be taught in the Afghan desert....
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
HMS Diamond has joined the USS Enterprise to exercise with US Carrier Strike Group 12 in the Middle East and demonstrate the Type 45's outstanding air...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Members of the public have written in their thousands to post messages of thanks for the Armed Forces' contribution to the London 2012 Olympic Games....
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Professor Sir Keith Porter, Honorary Professor of Clinical Traumatology at the University of Birmingham, charts the remarkable progress of modern mili...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Students from four British universities have travelled by sea to more than 30 European and Baltic ports with the Royal Navy for 12 weeks as part of an...